WEBSITE : FACEBOOK FEATURES

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK FEATURES

A login form is shown, on the left, and a registration form, on the right, for users who are not members.


Facebook users can choose to join one or more networks on the website, such as a school, place of employment, geographic region, or school group. These networks help users connect with members of the same network. Users can also connect to friends, giving them access to their friends' profiles.


The website is free to users, but generates revenue from advertising, including banner ads. Users create profiles that often contain photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, and join groups of friends. The viewing of detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network or confirmed friends.


Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising, and as such Facebook only serves advertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory, which only contains advertisements that have been pre-approved by Microsoft and have an existing agreement established between Microsoft and the advertiser. When compared with other web companies, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!. The data collected is used to show more relevant advertisements to website visitors.


Facebook Features: The media often compares Facebook to Myspace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. Myspace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text. The lack of decoration has been said to make the site more appealing to job seekers. Users can network, and even announce to their friends that they are seeking. In April 2007, CareerBuilder introduced a Facebook application that allows job recruiters to search through profiles.


Several features from the original Facebook website still exist. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see, Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other. Photos, where users can upload albums and photos, and status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions. The Facebook Wall allows users to post messages on the profile of their friends. A user's Wall is visible to anyone who is able to see that user's profile, which depends on their privacy settings. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.

Over time, Facebook has added several new features to its website. On September 6, 2006, a New Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthday related to the user's friends. Initially, the New Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users: some complained that the News Feed was too cluttered and full of undesired information, while

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Updated May 27, 2009

Facebook, by some measurements the most popular social network with more than 200 million active users worldwide, is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today.

The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by both teenagers and adults of all ages.

Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances. It has distinguished itself from rivals, partly by imposing a spartan design ethos and limiting how users can change the appearance of their profile pages. That has cut down on visual clutter and threats like spam, which plague rival social networks. In May 2007, Facebook unveiled an initiative called Facebook Platform, inviting third-party software makers to create programs for the service and to make money on advertising alongside them. The announcement stimulated the creation of hundreds of new features or "social applications" on Facebook , from games to new music and photo sharing tools, which had the effect of further turbo-charging activity on the site.

In May 2009, a Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, invested $200 million in Facebook in return for a 1.96 percent stake. The investment values Facebook's preferred stock at $10 billion, a $5 billion drop from October 2007 when Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake. With the latest round of financing, Facebook has raised about $600 million since it was founded in 2004.

At the time of Microsoft's investment in 2007, Facebook's $15 billion valuation drew criticism for being unrealistically high and a sign of a bubble in social network investments. With the new valuation, Facebook is demonstrating to its critics that it is living up to its early promise.

Facebook's rise has been marked by several controversies. Three other Harvard students maintain that they came up with the original idea and that Mr. Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to write code for the site, stole the idea and surreptitiously created a rival company. Facebook has denied the allegations; a lawsuit is pending.

Another Harvard classmate, Aaron Greenspan, asserts that he created the underlying architecture for both companies, but has declined to enter the legal fray .

In November 2007, Facebook again created a storm when it announced a new advertising system called Beacon, in which users' purchases or activities on some 40 partner sites were broadcast to their Facebook friends. Some users claimed that they were not adequately warned about the feature, and the political activist group MoveOn.org organized a protest group on Facebook, which attracted more than 70,000 members.

In December, Facebook capitulated to a key demand of the protesters by offering users an easy way to decline to take part in Beacon.

In February 2009, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated.

After a wave of protests from its users, Facebook said that it would withdraw changes to its terms of service. Mr. Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s next revision of terms would reflect “a new approach” and would be “a substantial revision from where we are now.”

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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html

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GIRL EFFECT ATTACK ON FACEBOOK

Girl Effect Attack On Facebook

LONDON November 19: A girl who is blind after a woman threw a glass into his face to track the attacker uses Facebook. Jennifer Wilson 20, using social networking website, to find the woman after the police failed tracking. He became detective, and finally succeeded in detecting women, find it after two days using Facebook.

But then he was asked to investigate where the women woeked as police unsuccessful tracking. "I have been doing police work on their behalf, "said Jennifer. Jennifer who is also the salon workes suffered serious injuries only a Holliman 22, throws the glass into his face at a nightclub. Holliman leave the dance stage, while Jennifer injuries only a few centimeters below his left eye.

Police investigators said closed-circuit camera (CCTV) from night club was not clear and the evidence has been cleaned by the employees. Jennifer from Oxhey, however, never recognize the men through Holliman with Facebook and make up more than 200 search profile before detecting offensive. He also earned Holliman address and gave it to Hertfordshire police but when police tried to hold that no attack at home.

Police then asked where the women find work and he once again uses Facebook Holliman and eventually find works as a Hairdressers in Green, Herts, Croxley. Police detained the woman in the place he worked after that day, and brought him to the police station for investigation.

WHAT IS FACEBOOK?

WHAT IS FACEBOOK?

1. Start was founded in 2004.
2. Sparked unusual phenomenon not only among teenagers but also guide school children and adults.
3. Unlike other social networking website, Facebook shows unique diversity through interactive applications.
4. Develop by Mark Zuckerberg, a former Ardsley High School students.
5. It later expanded to schools and universities around Boston, United States.

INTERACTIVE FUNCTIONS ATTENTION

If first encounters with relatives or old friends, we will ask for a number or address at least where they live. The aim is to ensure that bonds relationship and friendship that have gone onky not stopped. Unlike the situation now, expect phone number, we often ask the email address or account name for the Internet social networking profile.

It is because today, not just adults but also children's primary schools have also been social networking website profile of their own. Phenomenon which has become increasingly well-received exceptional not only in our country even among people around the world

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It makes Malaysia ranked third in terms of access the page with 74.3% after Singapore and South Korea 68%. Among the site's most popular and frequently visited by the Internet Facebook is the country with about 6.2 million visitors. It followed the Friendster site recorded 4.2 million users. Next Myspace, has 2.1 million and finally registered Twitter about 750,000 visitors.

Among the unique social networking website, it could be the best medium to bring together friends and relatives who have long lost contact. Through this website, each account user profile will contain information such as owner name, address, phone number and other important data for the search facility.


More interesring, the user is also allowed to upload photos and videos to their favourite shared with other community members. By the way, every individual the opportunity to inform the latest developments and activities being carried out to community members. For those who want do information sharing in private affairs, the website provides the application messages between personal account owners with selected members only.

In addition, consumers also offered applications for facilities management calendar store important informations such as appoinments, community members date of birth, phone number and monthly activity plan. In fact users of social networking websites can also try various peripheral applications such as interactive games available, quizzes and so on.
During the early emergence of this service around the year 2002, its use is limited to cruise through the medium of computing with Internet access, however, after successfully sparked unusual phenomenon, it can now be accessed anywhere through a specially developed platform for mobile applications.

That way, it will facilitate users to access their social network websites from any location they are alone. From the safety angle, there may be asking, to what extent these services ensures users of the risks of cyber intrusion. Hence, to ensure the incident does not happen, users are advised not to disclose personal information in any social network applications.

In fact, social networking website service is able to give many benefits to users. If it is used correctly, not one to be actively involved in that activities. But, very important each individual must use it wisely so as not to impact negatively.

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Seems to be routine, the Internet is now a part of life. Every day we do not like forget to surf the Web, especially social networks become a favourite. See the excitement, the followers of the page definitely has its own reason why they are so fun and interested to participate in virtual communication.

Generally, the social network's web site refers to services that allow individuals to form social communities online for various purposes and activities. Not merely provide a platform discussion or exchange of messages between members, the presence of these sites also offer various medium interaction modern. In application including online chat, email service, view videos, blogs and file sharing construction. Discussion activities will become easier because everything can be done online.

Frenzy of activity growing, so successfully dominated the highest position for sailing website among Interneat users globally. Overall, there are now approximately 170 social networking website popular and actively used by internet users around the world such as Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Twitter and others. For example, interactive Facebook page, it now has 350 million users globally. In Malaysia, the madness of this phenomenon is not something new. If it was formerly known only among young people, but now also received good response from professionals. This is because, has besides functionings as a channel for interactive communication platform, also widely applied to various other purposes such as business and political.


Based on research, internet users in this country has reached 16 million people. Figure are expected to reach 20.4 million by 2012. Of this amount, social network service website has recorded the use of 66 percent.

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